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    THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX.

    Jon Bois

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2025

    YouTube

    18:13 · 1.6M views · Feb 18, 2016

    Jon Bois tells the story of a 2008 bodybuilding forum thread in which users spent a weekend arguing over how many days are in a week. It is episode six of his Pretty Good series for SB Nation.

    Shared as the definitive retelling of one of the dumbest online arguments ever.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @wolrahApr 2025· in “4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak”

      > Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online Jon Bois did an amazing video about this one: this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @1_playerMay 2021· in “●●|●●●●●|●●|●”

      LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: [LINK] -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: this video * Time Cube: [LINK] -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.

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    3. @smclSep 2022· in “I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week”

      Hm, if they switched the schedule up a little and had a workout every other day (with a rest day in between) they could have been working out 4-5 times per week. If anyone's unsure about the maths on that then don't worry, "you don't count the day you're on when you're counting days " ;-) this video

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